North Shore University Hospital has been using a blood test instead of radiation to help determine whether a patient has ...

Their doctor had ordered a CT scan — a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior ...

Use of CT is proven to save lives in patients eligible for lung cancer screening, which includes most patients with COPD, said Barr, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

With a simple brain scan, providers can now better detect and monitor Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Tracy Vargas, a neurologist at ...